On KDE 4.1
KDE 4.0 was designed to be a watershed rethink of the technologies providing the graphical user interface, and now KDE 4.1 will help to finish the transition to the new paradigm. North Davis Road describes some of the details in the post “Reimagining the Desktop.”
“Disruptive change comes from the unlikeliest of sources at times. It rarely, if ever, comes from established players in a space particularly commercial ones.”
The writing is a bit ill-organized, but the information in the article and the saga of KDE 4.x remain quite interesting.